by Glen Walker,
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iOS has an accessibility feature to allow users to select their preferred text size. Some applications will respect this setting and change their text size appropriately, however, some do not. To change your preferred text size
It's no accident that both Section 508, 1194.21(c), and WCAG 2.0 Success Criterion 2.4.7 both call for visible focus indication. Users with mobility/dexterity disabilities often rely on keyboard accessibility, perhaps using assistive technologies (such as mouth sticks) that rely on the keyboard.
Facebook now has a dedicated accessibility team dedicated to improving the experience for people with disabilities. In a recent post, Jeff Wieland discusses the recent accessibility improvements of Facebook.
Facebook Accessibility Improvements
- Photo captions and other structured information are now included in the alt tag
- Working on making some of the more exotic dynamic interactions—like typeaheads, where you start typing something in and we show you matches—more accessible to the visually impaired
- Trying to do a better job of moving keyboard focus to new dialogs when they open up on the screen
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